Label: Odeon/EMI Electrola – 1C 165-28954/7
Format: 4 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Box Set / Country:
Germany / Released: 1972
Style: Contemporary, Experimental, Interview
Engineer [Recording] – Johann Nikolaus Matthes,
Kurt Lorbach
Liner Notes – Heinz-Klaus Metzger
Producer [Recording] – Lieselotte Montes-Baquer
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 1, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP1- A
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 2, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP1- B
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 3, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP2 - C
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 4, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP2 - D
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 5, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP3 - E
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 6, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP3 - F
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 7, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP4 - G
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side 8, stamped): 1C
165-28 954/7 Y – LP4 – H
Please note, many Odeon issues also carry an EMI logo.
It indicates that Odeon was part of the EMI Group.
side 1:
A1 - John Cage: Credo in Us
........................................................................................
16:10
A2 - John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No.1
.................................................................. 7:35
Orchestra
– Ensemble Musica Negativa
Conductor – Rainer Riehn
Percussion – Burkhard Wissemann, Michael Dietz
Piano
– Christoph Keller
Turntables [Phonograph], Electronics [Radio] – Johann Nikolaus Matthes
side 2:
B1 - John Cage: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra / Solo
For Voice I-II .................... 18:00
B2 - John Cage: Rozart Mix
..........................................................................................
7:20
Orchestra
– Ensemble Musica Negativa
Conductor – Rainer Riehn
Piano
– Hermann Danuser
Voice
– Bell Imhoff, Doris Sandrock
side 3:
C - Earle Brown: Folio
................................................................................................
23:40
Ca - October
1952, Cb - November 1952, Cd - December 1952, Ce - MM-87,
Cf - MM-135
March 1953, Cg - Music for "Trio for Five Dancers" June 1953
Orchestra
– Ensemble Musica Negativa
Conductor – Rainer Riehn, Earle Brown
Piano
– Hermann Danuser
side 4:
D1 - Earle Brown: Four Systems
..................................................................................
6:51
D2a - Christian Wolff: In Between Pieces For Three
Players I ...................................... 8:50
D2b - Christian Wolff: In Between Pieces For Three
Players II ...................................... 4:30
D3 - Christian Wolff: Electric Spring 2
.......................................................................... 6:45
Orchestra
– Ensemble Musica Negativa
Conductor – Earle Brown
Cello – Wilhelm Schulz
Double
Bass, El. Bass Guitar – Timm-Johannes Trappe
Organ – Gerhard Stäbler
Guitar
[Electric] – Jörg Trappe
Recorder
– Rainer Riehn
Trombone
– Bernt Laukamp
Christian Wolff, Toshi Ichiyanagi
side 5:
E1 - Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
......................................................................... 11:20
E2 - Morton Feldman: The Straits of Magellan
.............................................................. 5:12
E3 - Morton Feldman: Between Categories
................................................................. 12:15
Conductor
– Rainer Riehn
Cello
– Frank Wolff, Wilhelm Schulz
Chimes
– Michael Dietz, Burkhard Wissemann
Horn
– Jakob Hefti
Piano
– Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Christoph Keller, Morton Feldman
Soprano
Vocals – Bell Imhoff
Violin – Ulf Klausenitzer, Hans-Peter Friedrich
Double
Bass – Timm-Johannes Trappe
Flute
– Karlheinz Wiberny
Guitar [El.] – Klaus-Ulrich Dorn
Harp
– Brigitte Deshais du Portail-Sylvestre
Trumpet
– Paul Knill
side 6:
F1 - Toshi Ichiyanagi: Sapporo
....................................................................................
13:56
F2 - Toshi Ichiyanagi: Life Music
.................................................................................
14:22
Orchestra
– Ensemble Musica Negativa
Conductor
– Rainer Riehn
side 7:
G - Conversations with John Cage, Christian
Wolff, Hans G Helms ......................... 26:00
side 8:
H - Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Heinz-Klaus
Metzger in discussion .................... 28:30
VERY RARE BOX SET
Excellent and highly sought after recordings of these seldom seen contemporary works featuring ENSEMBLE MUSICA NEGATIVA with conductets by RAINER RIEN & EARLE BROWN. EMI Electrola gold label, first German release. 4LP box set complete with two inserts.
The set includes a booklet and a transcript
(English and German) of conversations and discussions on LP 4 (sides G / H).Excellent and highly sought after recordings of these seldom seen contemporary works featuring ENSEMBLE MUSICA NEGATIVA with conductets by RAINER RIEN & EARLE BROWN. EMI Electrola gold label, first German release. 4LP box set complete with two inserts.
Note:
Toshi Ichiyanagi – I 1st heard his music on the
"Music Before Revolution" box-set in 1972, then in 1975 as part of
"Extended Voices". Both were extremely important to me. The 2 pieces
on the box-set, "Sapporo" & "Life Music" were almost
completely unlike anything I'd ever heard before. They sounded like some sort
of primordial playpen where almost every sound seemed on the fringe of
technique. - like the sounds were just coming into being They were
unpredictable & very, very alive.
Ichiyanagi studied with both Henry Cowell &
John Cage, presumably at the New School for Social Research in NYC.
Incredible recording. Enjoy!
If you find it, buy this album!
